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Fest Anča will welcome digital game developers from Poland, Hungary, Austria, Czech Republic and Slovakia. As part of Fest Anča Game Days, they will present their current projects and projects in development.

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Although Tomm Moore—the Irish animator, illustrator and director—is only 38 years old, he is credited with two Oscar-nominated animated feature films. His newest work—the charming fairy tale “Song of the Sea”—has become a big hit with viewers worldwide, and has aroused public interest in Slovak cinemas, too.

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Mari-Liis Rebane is the director of the Animated Dreams Festival and an artist working in the fields of audiovisual production, illustration and moving image. As a member of the Anča Music Video Award jury at Fest Anča, she will decide about the best animated music videos.

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The 8th Fest Anča International Animation Festival will screen a number of Slovak and foreign films with Slovak premieres. The best Slovak films submitted for the international competition will also compete for the Anča Slovak Award. The winning film will be awarded €600 donated by the Literary Fund.

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Desaxismundi is a French generative artist and creative developer, which since 2006 has tirelessly visualized things thanks to an ever-growing range of real-time techniques. He will be performing with Estonian musician Vul Vulpes at Fest Anča and will introduce his work during a presentation. As a jury member of Anča Music Video Award Desaxismundi will be deciding on the best music video.

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Fest Anča has a new spot! It was created by the authors of this year´s visual identity of Fest Anča, animators Joanna Kożuch and Boris Šima. Starring Pluto, a regular attendee of the festival, in the leading role. The music was composed by Braňo Laho a.k.a Emilee.

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Do you still think that animated films are just for kids? The midnight screenings at Fest Anča will change your mind! You will get a unique chance to see a number of saucy films loaded with love, erotics, sexual adventures, as well as absurdity, psychedelia and fresh humour. These films surely won´t leave you cold...

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The Fest Anča International Animation Festival will once again open the summer vacation season by bringing the best international animated movies to Žilina. The festival will take place between June 24 – 28, and a special guest of this 8th year of Fest Anča will be the Estonian animation couple Priit and Olga Pärn, who have received many awards.

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The 8th Fest Anča festival has a brand new visual created by two Slovak animators – Joanna Kožuch (Fongopolis) and Boris Šima (Chyťte ho!). We sat down together and talked about how the new design was created, and discussed the importance of yoghurt in the whole process.

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We are launching a call for entries registration process for our 8th edition of Fest Anča, which will be held on June 24 – 28, 2015. The last date of film submission is March 15, 2015. Our festival opens six competition categories: Anča Award, Anča Student Award, Anča Music Video Award, Anča Kids’ Award, Anča Slovak Award and D Award.

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Fest Anča 2015 festival passes are perfect presents for you and your nearest and dearest! Pre-sale tickets for the festival, which will take place in Žilina between 24 and 28 June 2015, are now available! These limited edition tickets are an exclusive reduced price of EUR 12.

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Academic conference in Polish Bielsko-Biala is calling for papers on various topics connected with Subversivnes and Deformation in Animated Fillms of Visegrad Countries. The conference will be realized during September 11 - 13, 2015. Only papers in English language are accepted. Submission deadline is August 15, 2015.

Between May 5 - 8, 2015, the 3rd year of Visegrad Animation Forum will take place in Třeboň, Czech Republic. Visegrad Animation Forum is the most important event for professionals working in the animation industry in Central and Eastern Europe. VAF´s mission is to attract new partners, producers, broadcasters, sales agents and film distributors and to present them new short animated films and animated series in development.

Half of the duo that created Fest Anča‘s visual design this year is Joanna Kożuch, animator of Polish origin who lives and works in Slovakia. After several student films she made at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava, she succeeded with her first professional film - Fongopolis - at Fest Anča, as well as at other festivals and movie theatres.

The film Rosso Papavero was finished last year, and has already won the Literary Fund´s prize at last October’s Biennial of Animation Bratislava. At the beginning of this year it will be competing for an international prize at the Berlinale Generation Kplus competition section.

The Veronika Kocourková film Ako vzniká tornádo (The Story of a Tornado) can be seen in cinemas from 4th December 2014 as a pre-film to the family feature film Magické striebro – Hľadanie kúzelného rohu (Magic Silver – The Quest for the Mystic Horn) which is brought to you by the Film Europe Media Company.

VAF, the biggest Central and Eastern European pitching forum, has opened its call for entries which is a chance for Slovak animators to enroll with their short film and TV series projects. Submission deadline is Febrary 8, 2015.

The successful creative duo Ové Pictures is coming up with their biggest project so far: a 17-minute animated film Nina. After the gala premiere, scheduled to take place on September 26, 2014 at the cinema Lumière, the film will be distributed to Slovak movie theatres within the Project 100.

This year at Kremnica Gags—the European festival of humour and satire (August 29-31, 2014) —animated film will find its place, too. The author of the visual concept of this year’s Gags Ivan Popovič will present new episodes of his animated series for children.

Vladislava Plančíková, a Documentary film Department graduate, attended art classes as an Elementary School pupil, but only began to animate after she started working on her debut that required her personal involvement. A new animated documentary feature called Felvidék: Caught in Between was premiered in Slovakia.

On Thursday December 12, 2013 at 4:30 pm a release party of DVD VIRVAR – Contemporary Slovak Animated Film was held at the movie theatre of the Film and Television Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava.

Documentary series of six episodes inspired by a book bestseller with the same name by Polish author Mariusz Szczygiel presents different personalities of the Czech nation, always directed by a different FAMU director.

Snow is a short animated film about love. It tells a story of a young woman, Maja, who, in her desperate longing for love, loses touch with reality and begins to collapse into the dark corners of her own imagination. You can see Snow in Slovak cinemas from September 19, 2013.

Most importantly, she is working on her earlier project Fongopolis. Art works, animation, editing - all is done and the sound track of the film is being finished at the moment, including music of course. A young violinist is heading to a city called Fongopolis. He is about to perform his life solo in a grandiose concert with a prestigious Philharmonic.

One of the oldest animation studios in Slovakia is owned by Ivan and David Popovič. My Studio was founded by the father and son in 1992. The largest part of their production is covered by a series about inventions If I Only Had a Screw Loose!

Marián Vredík, the author of the 2012 animated adaptation of a children rhyme I’m drawing a circle, is a master's degree student at the Academy of Fine Arts, at the department of painting in the studio of prof. Mgr.art. Klaudia Kosziba, but this semester he is on an internship at FAMU.

Preparations for feature film Heart of the tower by Peter Budinský (tWINs, Bird of Pray) and Patrick Pašš ml. (In the field) are slowly continuing on Slovak animation scene. The film develops the topics of fear and death, more intended for adult audience than for child viewers.